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"When the men are silent, it is our duty to raise our voices in behalf of our ideals."
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"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze."

"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."

"Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too."

"Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat."

"Do we elect a man because of what he stands for, because of where he stands on the issues, because how he makes the nation feel?"
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"Bourgeois society is not fundamentally opposed to the bourgeois women's movement, which is proven by the fact that in various states reforms of private and public laws concerning women have been initiated."

"We would, however, perform an injustice to the bourgeois women's rights movement if we would regard it as solely motivated by economics. No, this movement also contains a more profound spiritual and moral aspect."

"For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened with by capitalism, but they are not sufficient to crush capitalism and to emancipate the workers from their tyranny."

"When a battle for suffrage is conducted, it should only be conducted according to socialist principles, and therefore with the demand of universal suffrage for women and men."

"What practical conclusions may we now draw for our propaganda work among women? The task of this Party Congress must not be to issue detailed practical suggestions, but to draw up general directions for the proletarian women's movement."

"The workers have nothing to gain from this war, but they stand to lose everything that is dear to them."

"The most disastrous phenomenon of the current situation is the factor that imperialism is employing for its own ends all the powers of the proletariat, all of its institutions and weapons, which its fighting vanguard has created for its war of liberation."

"These interests of the workers, as the exploited and oppressed, class of society, are the same in all countries."

"What made women's labour particularly attractive to the capitalists was not only its lower price but also the greater submissiveness of women."
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